Allow the Holy Spirit to be your guide

I remember growing up as a child and hunting during the fall for squirrel, ducks and deer.

Sometimes, as I eased through the woods, I would scare up a covey of quail and they would go flying in every direction away from me.

That would make me want to run also because I was not expecting that to happen. But soon I would regain my composure and would continue to try and enjoy my hunt.

As we go through life we run into many obstacles. Some are just annoyances, some are hindrances and some are dangerous.

We never know when these things are going to happen or how they will happen because we travel moment by moment in life. We can't see around the next curve or hill.

But the good news is that we can have someone to go with us who can and who will be able to help us navigate through this life. Jesus told us that he was going to leave this world and go to our Heavenly Father to be an intercessor for us but that he would send unto us a helpmate called the Holy Spirit.

He said that the Holy Spirit would dwell within us. That means that he would become part of our spirit so that he could teach and guide us in our journey of life.

The only way that we can receive this helpmate called the Holy Spirit is to first be cleansed from our sins and the only way to be cleansed from our sins is by the blood of Jesus.

We must ask Jesus to forgive us and to cleanse our lives from the iniquities within us. The Holy Spirit can only dwell in clean vessels, so after we receive our cleansing from sin we must keep ourselves holy by staying in the grace of God and walking and living our lives as God's Word directs.

With the Spirit of God dwelling within us, when the obstacles arise against us - and it doesn't matter how big we think they are - with God they are but a stumbling stone.

The Word says that God goes before us to foil the snare of the fowler and to remove the stumbling stones from our path.

Psalm 91: "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

"I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

"Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

"He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

"Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

"Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

"A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee."

God can scatter our problems if we will cleanse ourselves today and let the Spirit of God dwell within us.

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Allow the Holy Spirit to be your guide

I remember growing up as a child and hunting during the fall for squirrel, ducks and deer.